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- Sewage water is purified by flocculating it using regenerated sludge as flocculating substance, by enriching and stagnating the sludge and by aerating the same by means of a uniform laminar air flow spread out over the main part of the bottom of a sludge chamber, said air flow giving a large relative movement between each individual air bubble and the sludge particles.
- the main component of the aerobic fiocculating process is the flocculation substance generator which replaces the digester in the anaerobic process. Viewed hydrauically said generator is connected in a corresponding manner at the side of the main water flow.
- the function of the digester tank is to take charge of separated sludge, neutralize and remove the same. Separation of sludge and water in the main Water flow is incomplete if chemical flocculation is not used. In the former instance the digester only receives a portion of suspended and dissolved substance, which should be removed from the water.
- the flocculating substance generator or precipitate substance generator creates, under favourable conditions, a highly adsorptive flocculating agent, which when returned to the main water flow precipitates the turbidity of the water and certain dissolved substances.
- the floc is formed nuder well known conditions, essentially by stirring slowly. It is known from the operation of waterworks that a number of tanks connected in series with varying stirring intensity give the lowest remaining turbidity of the water phase. Aeration, when adapted in a certain manner, gives similar results.
- the sludge phase is then separated in the settling tankno filtering is required and returns to regeneration. Settling is effected so much more rapidly when fiocculating than when not flocculating that the sum of the flocculating and settling volume is lowerin any event not greater-than when solely deflocculating non-deflocculating water.
- a third of the sludge is removed each day (whereupon a portion of newly arrived sludge is also removed) and usually introduced into a digester where the aerobic sequence is interrupted and replaced by an anaerobic process.
- a digester where the aerobic sequence is interrupted and replaced by an anaerobic process.
- the albumin is decomposed partly to ammoniac (or ammonium bicarbonate) NH OH+NH -HCO
- the phosphorus is converted substantially to HPO -ions.
- Stabilization aerators have also been designed, where the excess of sludge in the active sludge process is not removed until a relatively long time has passed by. Examples of other systems are:
- the present invention eliminates the aforementioned disadvantages.
- the invention is based upon the new conception that oxygenizing of the sludge particles is by no means promoted by low BOD-content or sludge concentration in the water phase.
- the tests made by the inventors have shown that the water phase about the floc particles constitutes a diffusions-preventing interface around said particles, which makes transport of oxygen to the bacteria difficult, which cooperate with the oxidation of the fioc particles. Said interface also obstructs the removal of decomposition products caused by the bacteria activity during the oxidation process.
- the invention is thus mainly concerned with providing a method according to which instead of aerating incoming sewage water intermixed with activated sludge, enriched or recovered, relatively stationary sludge is aerated, i.e. sludge presenting no rotary motion, and by providing for among others for a uniform laminar air flow caused by spreading out the aeration over the main part of the bottom of the sludge container to arrange for the aeration of the sludge to provide a high relative movement between each individual air bubble and the sludge particles, so that good contact between the interface of the air bubbles and the sludge particles is obtained.
- This is opposed to known sludge aeration systems, where the main thought is placed upon a roller-like movement of the sludge rotating with the air stream, which gives little relative movement between the sludge particles and the air bubbles.
- the invention also comprises enriching the sludge of the sewage water and collecting it in an aeration tank, bringing a substantial portion of the sludge volume into contact with an essentially vertical stream of air bubbles of such nature that the maximum diffusion effect between bubbles and sludge particles is obtained, in that provision is made to ensure that for a given volume of sludge the effect of the total surface of the air bubbles, the relative speed of the bubbles and the air turbulence inside the bubbles is an optimum.
- iron hydrate concentration Fe(OH) of at least mol./m. (at C.) aerated tank by natural enrichment from incoming water, so that 4 an optimal concentration of microorganisms is obtained, which results in an unloaded floc presenting good sorption properties, and which permits the chemical precipitation of phosphorus (P) in the iron hydrate and which can also absorb impurities even when presenting small amounts.
- the phosphates in the sewage water may substantially arrive from domestic kitchen water, one third, from toilets, one third, and the remaining third from synthetic detergents. Calculated absolutely approximately 3 g. phosphorus/ person and day are involved, i.e. 1 g./ person of each of the afore-mentioned types of water from the households.
- the phosphorus is retained physically by mechanical adsorption in the sludge against the sludge particles, whereby the condition that the phosphorus shall be retained in the sludge being that the iron hydrate Fe(OH) is present in the correct proportions in the mixture of incoming sewage water and activated sludge.
- This ratio of 1:3 is of significance in order that the trivalent iron is capable of attracting the phosphorus containing particles of sludge, and thus free the sewage water from the phosphorus.
- the method thus entails binding the phosphorus by substances developed by the own flocculation of the sewage water, and separating the phosphorus from the water by converting the same first to fioc and then to sludge, where the phosphorus is thus held fixed.
- the corresponding amount of water is /3 m. person and day.
- the given method can also be said to distinguish from known biological purifying processes because in the latter varying amounts of incomin sewage water are accepted and work is carried out with constant sludge circulation per unit of time, i.e. variable sludge concentration, the supply of regenerated sludge to the variable quantity of sewage water thus being held constant.
- the quantity of regenerated sludge which is fed to the incoming sewage water as flocculation agent comprises a specific portion of the sewage water, suitably reaching up to l0-20% by volume by the most.
- FIG. 1 shows the most important parts of the system, before the system has been put into operation
- FIG. 2 shows a cross-section of a treatment system according to the invention in operation.
- Water treatment methods according to the invention thus present a system which is executed preferably as an integrated unit and comprising a mixing equalizing or buffer tank for accommodating the incoming sewage water, a flocculating tank where activated or regenerated sludge serves as the flocculating agent, a sedimentation tank for concentration or enrichment of the sludge and separation of the water phase, and a regeneration tank for activating the enriched sludge.
- a mixing equalizing or buffer tank for accommodating the incoming sewage water
- a flocculating tank where activated or regenerated sludge serves as the flocculating agent
- a sedimentation tank for concentration or enrichment of the sludge and separation of the water phase
- a regeneration tank for activating the enriched sludge.
- Preferably these are designed in an integrated unit comprising a mixing-buffer chamber, a flocculating chamber, a sedimentation chamber and a regenerating chamber.
- the water treatment system has thus a total of at least four chambers
- An air lift pump is further arranged between the sedimentation and regeneration chambers in the form of openings in the wall between the chambers and areation cushions in the regeneration chamber, and air lift action through the aeration cushions.
- a second air lift pump Arranged between the buffer and flocculation chambers is a second air lift pump. Said first-mentioned chamber may thus also serve as equalizing chamber upon a sudden inflow of fluid.
- the wall between the flocculating chamber and the sedimentation chamber is also provided with an opening, preferably somewhat below the water level which is determined by the spillway in the sedimentation chamber.
- a metering arrangement is situated between the buffer chamber or flocculating chamber and the regeneration chamber, the metering arrangement suitably being in the form of a tiltable scoop, for instance a double scoop, where the one scoop is filled with running sewage water while the other one is immersed into the regenerated sludge.
- the mutual volume of the scoop is adjusted according to the desired concentration of sludge in the sewage water. The volume which can be removed by the smaller scoop reaches to between /3 and A of the volume of the larger scoop.
- the integrated system is preferably formed in the shape of a circular well, in which the regeneration chamber forms a cylindrical inner room, where remaining chambers form outer rooms in the shape of a segmented ring.
- the casing of the treatment system is comprised of two truncated conical cylinders 1 and 2, which have been positioned one on top of the other and with the flaring edges turned towards each other, whereafter they have been lowered into the ground.
- a well is formed in which the different chambers of the system are arranged.
- the walls of the well conceived as being made of a reinforced glass fiber material and the bottom may also be designed of the same material, and securely adhered to the wall.
- the top of the well is provided with a cover 4.
- a tubular body 5 is arranged in the well space, concentric with the center axis of the well and which forms the regenerating chamber 5 of the system.
- the walls of the regenerating chamber may also be made of reinforced glass fiber material.
- the annular room about the regenerating chamber is divided into two portions by vane-shaped walls 6 and 7, extending diametrically from said walls out towards the walls of the well, said walls 6 and 7 being secured to the outer side of the regenerating chamber and to the inside of the well wall, and of which two portions, the one situated farthest away from the sedimentation chamber 8 of the treatment system.
- the portion of the well space nearest the viewer is divided by another vaneshaped wall 9 extending radially outwards from the cylindrical wall of the regenerating chamber into a somewhat larger room at the left of the drawing, said room forming the mixing and buffer chamber 10 of the system, and a somewhat smaller room approximately in the center of the drawing, which forms the flocculating chamber 11 of the system.
- an agitating cushion 12 Arranged at the bottom of the mixing chamber at its left hand side is an agitating cushion 12 made of foam plastics, and an air lift pump 13, 13 on the right hand side thereof.
- the agitator cushion and the air lift pump are both supplied with compressed air from a distributing line 14, supplied from a supply line 15, which in turn is connected to an aerating unit 16, see FIG. 2.
- the air lift pump 13, 13 is provided at its bottom with a conical plate 17 to ensure that the most advantageous flow conditions are obtained.
- a foam plastic agitating cushion -18 is also arranged on the right hand side of the bottom of the flocculating chamber 11, said cushion being supplied with air through the line 19. This arrangement is intended to provide for a slight agitation in the flocculating chamber.
- the sewage water is intended to be transferred together with the formed floc from the flocculating chamber to the sedimentation chamber 8, where is an opening 20 in the wall 7.
- the floc is intended to be settled in the chamber 8.
- the opening 20 is shielded by means of a plate 21, which is disposed in the centre of the opening 20 of the side of the sedimentation chamber, some distance from the wall 7.
- the bottom of the regenerating chamber with the exception of tooth-gap portions 22, which are turned to face the sedimentation chamber, is completely covered by an aerating foam plastic aerating cushion 23, to which compressed air is supplied through the pipe 24.
- the cylindrical wall of the regenerating chamber is provided opposite to the tooth-gap portions 22 with corresponding recesses, which means that the sludge settled on the bottom of the sedimentation chamber 8 can run into the regenerating chamber 5. Since a uniform and even flow of air upwards in the regenerating chamber is obtained by the aerating cushion 23, the regenerating chamber 8, simultaneously as an intensive aeration of the sludge introduced therein is obtained, acts as one large air lift pump. The introduced regenerating sludge is thus lifted in the regenerating chamber until it passes over the edge of a spillway tube 25, by which the sludge is intended to be returned into the sedimentation chamber 8.
- regnerated sludge is intended to be transferred from the regenerating chamber to the mixing chamber in quantities which are in proportion to the quantity of sewage water introduced into the mixing chamber through the conduit 26.
- a metering arrangement is arranged between the regenerating chamber and the mixing chamber.
- the metering arrangement in the shown system is in the form of a tiltable scoop 27 presenting two halves, one large half 28 intended to take up infiowing sewage water, and a smaller half 29 intended to take up given quantities of regenerated sludge.
- the scoop 27 is mounted in bearings 30 on the wall of the regenerating chamber.
- a coarse screen in the form of a basket 31, for separating coarse impurities and coarse fibrous material.
- a tube 32 is arranged for aerating the purification system. The system functions in the following manner:
- the sewage water enters the system in bursts through the inlet 26, and runs down into the scoop half 28.
- the regenerating chamber is assumed to be full regenerated sludge and the scoop half 29 is thus immersed in said sludge.
- the double sided scoop tilts and the sludge water and regenerated sludge are emptied into the mixing chamber 10 through the screen 31.
- the scoop is so designed that the volume of regenerated sludge transferred to the mixing chamber constitutes not more than 10-20 percent by volume of the quantity of sewage water introduced each time by the scoop half 28.
- the mixture of sewage water and regenerated activated sludge is pumped by means of an air lift pump 13, 13 from the mixing or equalizing chamber, which is dimensioned so that the same has extra space for accumulating suddenly overflowing sewage water, to the flocculating chamber 11, where the floc is reformed during slight stirring. In this instance the stirring shall only be sufficient to avoid sedimentation.
- the mixture passes from the flocculating chamber through the opening in the wall 7 to the sedimentation chamber.
- the flow of liquid is directed downwards by the plate 21, so as not to disturb the sedimentation.
- the clarified water passes over a spillway 32 and an outlet conduit 33 to the recipient.
- the spillway determines the liquid level in both the sedimentation and flocculation chambers.
- the sludge from the spillway 25 returns to the sedimentation chamber.
- the dissolved organic constituents are adsorbed in the mixing chamber on the surface of the active bacteria supplied with the regenerated sludge. After sedimentation and suction of the sediment into the sludge regenerating chamber the organic substances are absorbed by the bodies of the bacteria. Subsequent to strong aeration in the sludge regenerating chamber the bacteria are supplied with oxygen through the air bubbles, which also absorb the carbon dioxide CO appearing during the process of combustion in the bacteria.
- the mineralized organic impurities increase the amount of sludge, which means that surplus sludge, to an amount of approximately /3 percent volume of the incoming sewage water, must either be removed continuously or intermittently. This can easily be effected by means of an extra scoop arrangement on the metering scoop.
- a method for purifying sewage water by means of flocculation comprising:
- a method for purifying sewage water as in claim 1 further comprising:
- Apparatus for purifying sewage comprising:
- (0) metering means disposed above said mixing and sludge regenerating chambers to regulate the amount of incoming sewage water and regenerated sludge introduced into said mixing chamber.
- (g) means communicating between said sedimentation chamber and said sludge regenerating chamber wherein the precipitated sludge in said sedimentation chamber is drawn into said sludge regenerating chamber by the action of the air bubbles, thereby allowing the sludge to be aerated.
- said metering means comprises a double-ended, tiltable scoop, the first end of which is adapted to receive incoming sewage water, the second end being immersed in the 9 sludge in said sludge regenerating chamber, the volume of the second end being from /3 to A the volume of the first end, wherein as the first end fills up, the scoop tilts and discharges the contents of both ends into said mixing chamber.
- conduit means adapted to return the regenerated sludge from the top of said sludge regenerating chamber to the bottom of said sedimentation chamber.
- MICHAEL ROGERS Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.R. 15 210-6, 11, 197, 221, 256, 519
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